Asking Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. View quote
Christopher Hampton
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. View quote
Brian Greene
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do. View quote
George C. Marshall
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. View quote
Carl Sandburg
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland. View quote
Björk
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. (Desmond Tutu)
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. View quote
Georg Cantor
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. View quote
Winston Churchill
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. View quote
Mary Astor
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. View quote
John Updike
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. View quote
John Updike
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Effective management always means asking the right question. View quote
Robert Heller
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? View quote
Carl Rogers
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. View quote
Alice Walker
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. View quote
John Osborne